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While Zhang Pingliang was full of ambition, he didn't forget to order his subordinates to search for Xiaozhai.

These thieves have all been in the army, and none of them are good men and women, and they are good at all kinds of robbery and kidnapping.Not long after, several male and female meat tickets, several captured laborers, four mules and horses, some grain, some armor and equipment, and more than 100 coins hidden by the bandit leader were found in the stockade.

Now the team going back to the city is longer than before.

Zhang Pingliang rode on the horse, looked back, and confirmed that the injured companions were only injured on the flesh, not on the muscles and bones. Now they are walking like flying with the team, and there is no hindrance.There was only one person who had been shot in the knee, and it was already tightly bandaged and covered with medicine, and he was lying on the cart to rest.

He felt relieved, and couldn't help but said to his companion: "After this thief's nest is pulled out, there is nothing to worry about around Yutian County. I heard that in a few days, there will be a patrol in Jizhou The people from the company will come to visit, and I guarantee that they will not find anything wrong."

Walking side by side with the bridle is the cavalry general sent by Liu Ran to meet him.This will laugh and say: "The people from the Metropolitan Inspection Department are our own brothers? Even if there is a little trouble, just say hello and let it go, it doesn't necessarily have to tear face. What's more, what they are concerned about is the confiscation The armor, bows and arrows scattered among the people are not focused on catching robbers."

It has been half a year since the Battle of the Central Capital, and in fact, the relatively large group of thieves had already been cleaned up.However, after each war, the defeated army fled around and there were as many bandits as a cow hair, which was an inevitable situation.After the defeat of Yehuling, more than [-] soldiers retreated from northern Xinjiang to Hebei, and combined with local forces, they formed countless cottages and water villages.Guo Ning, the leader of the Ding Navy, rose from it.

The power of the Ding Navy now naturally exceeds that of the Central Capital court at that time, but within its control area, the collapse and disorganization of the local grassroots are much more serious than three years ago.

Therefore, the Inspection Department of the Privy Council of the Central Capital, which was originally scheduled to take over the arrest of robbers and public security in various places, has not been able to actually spread its power to various places.This type of security work is still in the hands of the local garrison.

Guo Ning was not very satisfied with this situation, so he specially urged Xu Ting, who also served as the patrol envoy of the capital, and his deputy Yan Shi several times.

In Guo Ning's view, the generals and academies of the Dinghai Navy are also in charge of the fields of military households and shady households.

Moreover, the army is used to meet strong enemies and fight fierce battles. If you are used to killing thieves twice in three days, it is no doubt that it is easy to kill chickens with a sledgehammer, but if a sledgehammer is used to killing chickens, can it still retain its original vigor?

Therefore, the inspection department of the capital has been intensively promoting the allocation of manpower. It is said that the inspection departments of the military prefectures on Zhongdu Road have already set up a shelf.

When they handed over security work to the military, it was also an assessment of the previous achievements of the troops stationed in various places in suppressing bandits.The generals from all over the country have elite soldiers in their hands. If there are still scraps of gangsters fleeing after half a year, the inspection department will report them layer by layer, and it will not look good in front of Marshal Du.

It was for this reason that Liu Ran, as the general guarding the capital, suddenly dispatched troops and generals to strictly supervise the investigation and suppression in the past few days.

He was a military officer who was promoted rapidly after the war in Zhongdu. He was not the same as most of the generals in the army who were born in Hebei, and he had no connections at all.So he had to handle things carefully and not leave anything to others.

However, Liu Ran has no qualifications, and there are quite a few old soldiers under him.In their eyes, Liu Ran was too worried.

The Metropolitan Inspection Department is still empty-handed until now. It is not because Xu Xuan, Yan Shi and others are not doing things well, but they also have their own difficulties.

Most of Xu Yu's old subordinates are thieves who followed him in Tangluo, Hebei. They are used to doing some shady things. Surveillance and tracking, breaking the door and unlocking the door, setting up a frame, and buying and plotting are all part of their job. .Otherwise, when Guo Ning started as an envoy of Dinghai, why was the place so peaceful, and the local officials of the Dajin Kingdom did not hinder it?
In addition to the majesty and fierceness on the surface, Ding Haijun also has many dark and cruel methods, and this is where Xu Yu's credit lies.

But firstly, the total number of these people is limited, and secondly, there is an upper limit. There are still many people who are too deeply involved in the dark side, so they are not suitable to be transferred to other positions.After Xu Yu took over the Metropolitan Inspection Department, she always wanted to follow the previous practice in Shandong and recruit senior officers and soldiers from the army to enrich her own team.

In the past two years, this approach was very effective, because Dinghai's territory was relatively limited, and the size of the army was not very large.Many officers and old soldiers were old or wounded, so they came out of the army and devoted themselves to local security, which was a good place to go.

However, as Guo Ning conquered the east and west, the territory controlled by the Ding Navy became wider and wider, and the size of the army became larger and larger.Many officers who are over forty years old don't need to stay on the front line of fighting. With military experience, they can be transferred to judges and officials. Even if the old soldiers are disabled, they are more than enough to be ministers.

Soldiers can also switch to civilian jobs if they don't want to stay in the army.

Over the past few years, thousands of local officials in the Dajin Kingdom have been killed by the Mongols, and Guo Ning does not want to use the candidates recommended by high-ranking officials in Zhongdu.Therefore, officers who are more able to read and write will directly become county magistrates of Qipin; even if they are not good at writing, as long as they pass the assessment and training, they can easily get a county magistrate or county lieutenant.

If you don’t want to be a magistrate, there are Li Yun’s left and right divisions, the business system of Qun Musuo, and even the sea fleet are constantly asking for people; Expansion, many important positions are waiting to be filled.

For this reason, the Metropolitan Inspection Department has always been under-recruited, and some of the incumbents are also very friendly with the soldiers.

At least, except for Liu Ran and Zhang Pingliang, no one really worried that the officials of the Metropolitan Inspection Department would come to seek their own bad luck.

The two of them will talk about it now. After coming out of Xiaoquan Mountain, they walked south along the path for a few miles. When they were about to step on the avenue parallel to Lihe River, the two of them suddenly changed their expressions and raised their hands to signal their subordinates to stop.

In the distance from them, there was a military flag flying obliquely, which led nearly a thousand horsemen meandering towards them.

"It's a seal."

The cavalry general said: "I heard that the soldiers and horses on Linhuangfu Road will be rotated. It seems that these are the soldiers who came back from Chifengkou to rest."

Zhang Pingliang and his party did not add up to [-] to [-] paces, and Qian Xia, with nearly a thousand troops, paid no attention to them and walked forward leisurely.

This Qian jurisdiction is Zhang Qian.

Zhang Qian held the rein with his left hand, his right hand hung down on his own leg, and his body swayed with the ups and downs of the horse.The cavalry under him were also exhausted, and more than [-]% of them were wounded.Behind the cavalry were two empty horses, with dozens of white linen pockets on their backs, and in the pockets were urns of the ashes of the sacrificed soldiers.

However, compared to the total number of soldiers, there were not many dead, and the soldiers did not appear depressed when they marched. On the contrary, everyone looked excited and proud. Many people were laughing and joking while marching.

Zhang Qian's unit was one of the Dinghai headquarters that was transferred to the front line of Dadingfu in Beijing to participate in the battle on Linhuangfu Road.

Since Genghis Khan's retreat, Ding Haijun has spent several months motivating the subordinates to operate the Beijing Road and Linhuangfu Road north of the Liaohai Corridor.The process was as expected by Guo Ning. The advance in the territory of Beijing Road was very smooth, and Linhuangfu Road was responsible for the abnormality.

Not only the local Mongolian tribes still insist on entrenching, but also a huge number of other alien races.In the past few months, Zhang Qian's troops have been entangled with the Hu people who have hundreds of horses and thousands of horses on the edge of the grassland. It is like a preview of the future conquest of the grassland.

On the other hand, important generals such as Wanyan Chengchong, Heshi Liede, and Heshi Liehuanduan in the northeastern interior also tried their best to expand by taking advantage of the shrinkage of the Mongols.They not only set off several large-scale battles at the eastern end of the grassland, but also confronted Shi Tianying's troops and Zhang Qian's troops.

The Ding Navy thought that their move represented a special political attempt, so they put all their energy into dealing with it.It turned out that this group of greedy and cunning Jurchens just wanted to control the pastures west of Taizhou before Dinghai resumed trade with the grasslands. The ultimate goal was to protect their original share of horse trade.

In the end, the battle was fought, and the energy was spent on business and negotiations.This was a bit too easy, which made Zhang Qian very uncomfortable. He could hardly find the feeling of fighting to the death.But at this moment, he was riding leisurely on the road, and suddenly thought, isn't this right?

A battle that is always struggling on the death line is not commendable, and not every battle is a matter of life and death.At this time, the sporadic fighting in northern Xinjiang is to safeguard the interests of the Ding Navy regime and the financial resources of the tens of thousands of soldiers in the Ding Navy.

Such a war just shows that the navy has enough power to maintain a peaceful and stable situation, and it also represents a bright future.